Job summary
- Main area
- Gynaecology
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 40 hours per week (1 in 10 on call for Gynaecology. Category A)
- Job ref
- 361-R2R-2367
- Employer
- East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Lister Hospital
- Town
- Stevenage
- Salary
- £105,504 - £139,882 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 02/02/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Consultant Gynaecologist (with interest in Oncology)
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
Here at East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust,
Our mission is:
Providing high-quality, compassionate care for our communities
Our vision to 2030 is:
To be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service
Job overview
This is an excellent opportunity within the Obstetrics and Gynecology department at East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust. Our complete commitment to developing careers means we’re looking for proactive, motivated, forward thinking, and dynamic individuals to join our clinical team.
This additional new substantive post is designed to strengthen the existing MDT that provides our local gynaecology oncology service.
Main duties of the job
• Provide clinical leadership and expertise in gynaecology with
an interest in gynae oncology, supporting vetting, rapid access
clinics, reviewing and developing the diagnostic and referral
pathways, supporting colleagues and Clinical Nurse
Specialists.
• Work effectively as the lead Tumour site lead, being a core
member of the weekly Gynae LMDT & SMDT ensuring
patients receive MDT care
• Provide an initial diagnosis and ensure patients are
appropriately assessed, investigated and discussed at the
LMDT/SMDT
• Undertake local early endometrial cancer surgery as part of
the local gynae oncology surgical capacity provision.
• Provide clinical leadership in service improvements, audit and
clinical governance including the production and review of
clinical guidelines and to work to the most recently published
national and network guidelines
• Working with the leadership clinical and operation team,
ensure cancer targets are met and that patients are treated in
date order in line with national guidelines.
• Participate in continuing medical education and training of
junior medical staff, consultant colleagues, nurses, medical
students and colleagues in primary care.
• Participate in the on call gynaecology rota and the day time
emergency gynaecology care provision and ward rounds
• Ensure all leave is covered by a gynaecology colleague who
is a member of the LMDT such that a 52 week per year service
is provided.
Working for our organisation
At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.
We run the following hospitals:
- The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
- New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
- Hertford County, Hertford
- Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood
We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.
We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post is based at Lister Hospital in Stevenage and comprises 10 core
programmed activities (PAs) including: rapid access & general gynaecology clinics, the gynae oncology MDT meeting, elective operating, special interest sessions that could include colposcopy or hysteroscopy, a share of the emergency gynaecology care provision and a non resident 1 in 10 on call commitment for gynaecology.
The post holder will be the tumour site lead and will join and strengthen an established multidiscipline team offering local and network level gynae oncology care. The post holder will provide leadership in reviewing
and developing referral and diagnostic pathways for gynae oncology.
In addition to gynae oncology services the department offers a wide range of other gynecology specialist services including benign gynaecology, colposcopy, hysteroscopy, fertility, emergency gynaecology, early pregnancy care, recurrent miscarriage, endometriosis, robotic surgery and urogynaecology. Within our Obstetrics services we provide a maternal medicine service for pregnancies complicated by diabetes, haematological and cardiac conditions, renal disease and many other medical conditions. There are also specialist clinics for other pregnancies requiring consultant led care and clinics for perinatal mental health, multiple pregnancy, fetal medicine and high BMI.
Person specification
Qualifications / Training
Essential criteria
- Entry on GMC Specialist Register or, be within 6 months of receipt of Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) at time of interview or, provide GMC confirmed eligibility for entry on the Specialist Register
- MRCOG or appropriate specialist qualification
Desirable criteria
- MD or Ph.D./ Postgraduate academic degree
Previous Experience
Essential criteria
- Gynaecological Oncology Experience
- ATSM, SITM or equivalent training & experience in diagnostic gynae oncology
- Advanced laparoscopic skills including TLH
- Broad range of experience in Gynaecology and MDT working and an ability to offer and be accountable for full and independent expert diagnostic opinion
- Can evidence leading on patient safety issues and achieving a change in practice
- Demonstrate an understanding of the basic principles of audit, evidence based practice, and clinical quality improvement initiatives
Desirable criteria
- ..ATSM or equivalent in vulval diseases
- ATSM or equivalent in Hysteroscopy
- BSCCP accreditation / Colposcopy SITM
- Experience of supervising undergraduates, doctors in training and other colleagues
- Published papers in peer reviewed journals
- Demonstrable experience and participation in research
Skills
Essential criteria
- Able to evidence engagement with clinical governance and the identification of errors and the learning from errors.
- Ability to work in a teams oriented environment and engage in MDT working
- Evidence of leadership skills and an ability to influence and motivate others
- Evidence engagement with appraisal and revalidation
- Able to show situational awareness and application of good decision making
- Ability to critically appraise published evidence
Knowledge
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Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Douglas Salvesen
- Job title
- Divisional Director Women's & Children's Services
- Email address
- [email protected]
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